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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.45s | source
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moonleay ◴[16 Nov 25 00:02 UTC] No.45941605[source]▶
A cool project, when you want to use AirPods outside of Apples ecosystem. Sadly, you have to use a rooted android device with a small patch due to a bug in the Android Bluetooth implementation. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238
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Andrex ◴[16 Nov 25 02:54 UTC] No.45942373[source]▶
I'm convinced it's impossible to implement the BT spec without MANY of these kinds of bugs popping up.

Apple mercy-killed Adobe Flash, we should be asking they do the same to Bluetooth. I'm sick of living in a reality where no one thinks to make something better. It has to be possible.

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SilverElfin ◴[16 Nov 25 02:59 UTC] No.45942402[source]▶
Mercy killed? Flash was great. There were so many inventive games and animations in that era. Apple didn’t mercy kill anything - they just removed a threat to their walled garden ecosystem using their anticompetitive position, but dressed it up as a security issue.
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1. baby_souffle ◴[16 Nov 25 03:01 UTC] No.45942413[source]▶
> Flash was great.

It had a great number of CVEs, you mean?

_modern_ HTML and JS have eclipsed flash in all meaningful ways.

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2. ezst ◴[16 Nov 25 05:42 UTC] No.45943047[source]▶
By stitching together an inconsistent hodgepodge of sometimes overlapping languages, technologies and APIs. On the user-side, I'm glad I don't need a proprietary player for such things any longer, but I sure hate doing anything remotely touching Web, in particular for the kind of highly interactive experiences Flash was good at.

In truth, the Web has eclipsed Flash, the player, but not the product.